DEW Annual Conference – programme

The programme for the Dublin Economics Workshop annual conference, which takes place on 23/24 September in White’s of Wexford, is available via this link [PDF]. Hopefully all sessions will be of interest the readers of this blog, but I might highlight the two keynote addresses, one by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, Northern Ireland’s Minister of Finance, and the other by Sharon Donnery, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank,  as well as sessions on Irish national accounts (in the light of 26% growth) and on Irish fiscal and financial stability (in the light of #appletax), and one led by Liam Delaney on using behavioural economics to shape public policy.

Given my own interests, it will not be a surprise to learn that there is a session on housing supply (including expert views on why construction costs are so high in Ireland) and on real estate more broadly, while there is also an interesting session on life beyond the M50, looking at politics, agriculture and funding for the arts, taking place on Friday afternoon.

Bookings for the conference can be made on the DEW’s website, here.

(And on behalf of the new organising committee, I apologise for the delay in this going live!)

Ajay Chopra’s Kenmare Address

Thanks to Patrick at Dublin Chamber of Commerce, here is a link to Mr Chopra’s address tonight at DEW Kenmare.

Click here to listen to the talk, it’s about 30 minutes long.

Here’s the text of the speech from the IMF.

And in other news, we may have another solution to Ireland’s economic crisis that takes full account of our constrained funding position.

Fiscal Consolidation II – Lessons from the Last Time

Colm McCarthy’s Kenmare paper is now available as Irish Economy Note No.8.

Fiscal Policy for Recovery

The paper presented by John Fitzgerald at the Kenmare conference is available here.

DEW Kenmare 2009 conference

The programme for this conference is available here.

You can download a booking form here.